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Should Republicans work with Democrats to reform Obamacare?

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President Trump let loose on Mitch McConnell in a tweet storm, urging him to change the laws of the Senate so that Obamacare could be repealed. “They look like fools and are just wasting time,” the president wrote of his party’s senators.

After a crushing defeat, President Trump met with three Senate Republicans about a new plan to roll back the health care law. Some Republicans still staunchly believe Obamacare is one of the worst pieces of legislation ever enacted, and it must be repealed.

Others are fearful of what the electorate will do to GOP representatives after they promised for seven years that they would get rid of Obamacare and now can't follow through.

But since the 1990s, compromise by the opposition party has been frequently construed as weakness and betrayal. To reach across the aisle at this point will look like a betrayal to many conservative voters.

For McConnell to compromise with Democrats and patch up the system would be for him to surrender the anti-Obamacare crusade on which he embarked in 2009 and from which he has never wavered.